The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-01-19

my neighbors did season before last
/ shall be satisfied Mr.. Reddock
made on 81 acres about six hundred
dollars that season on tobacco. This
he could not have done with any Of
the ordinary crops grown here. [
propose trying it little further as
[ have gone to the expense Of pre-
pairing for it. Cultivate we'll a few
acres and properly handle it if you
expect good prices.
J. R. Means. We should plant
not less than two acres, if we plant
any, in order to get a barn of uni
form size and ripeness. The fail
ures the past season should not stop
us but rather nerve us up to try
harder the next time Never risk
a large crop Of it, if you do you
will neglect other important crops
[ am of the opinion that you can
get from a third to half more out
of it with the same labor than you
can from a grain crop. By all means
get an early and even stand as it
will ripen up better and give you
ilt'IC t:iIIC W CuI = H.
D. Reid Parker Don't be deceived
into the ruinous idea Of the one
crop policy. you do you will get
so poor that your carcass would not
be relished even by hungry buzzards.
Make your own supplies and be self
sustaining and independent-plant
what you may. We must be salts
fed with slow going until we learn
more about this crop, as none of us
are experts in it's management,
Operate on small scale and in the
meantime learn. 1t is folly to ex-
pect to succeed in any business un-
til we have become trained in it's re-
quirements. As we learn more we
will succeed better Don't go in
debt and mortgage your crop for
fertilizers or any thing else, if you
do the chances are that you will
come to grief Let the warehouse
men and the obliging merchants
keep their ferterlizers so far as you
are concerned. Pay the cash for
these things or go without and then
you will be at liberty to sell when
and where you you please.
D. NJ. Payne. Other brethren
have sufficiently discussed the sub
ject from the seed bed to the ware
house. [ want to go over unoccu-
pied ground. In doing so l must
digress in some measure from what
the statement Of the question would
allow, claiming that the following
thoughts are pertinent with those
who do or contemplate tobacco cul-
ture While the farmers financial
interest may cease at the warehouse
he has moral considers tion beyond
it. Tobacco is not of vital import
ance to people except in the single
instance claimed by Mr.. Clingman
for its medical properties. If he be
correct it is only fit for the sick
room and therefore would require a
much less extent Of growing to sat
isfy the demands than it now has
If the ground we have taken be a
just one, we ought to plant with an
eye first to other crops, such as the
cereals and fruits, together with
their foods, then tobacco.
1t is claimed, and / think justly,
that the making and vending Of
deleterious article is detrimental to
the community. But in this instance
the bad effects are somewhat miti-
gated as it does not destroy in it's
manufacture some life sustaining
article as others do It would be
doubly baneful if it had such de-
struction in it's preparation. 1t oc-
cupies time and soil in it's culture,
which, likely, might be put to bet
ter use.
Now if it be luxury, as Capt.
Snow, who is good authority, claims
then we may with some propriety,
if not decency, cultivate it. As a
money crop it has but few superiors
if you are situated in a favorable To-
cality for it, and have "Snow's mod
ern tobacco barn" to cure it in. But
luxuries are scarcely bearable when
ruin in some form follows in their
wake. A man need not be an ex-
pert in physic to see that the bad
effects arising from the use ola weed
of questionable utility, when it
makes him sick and the better type